Foreign News: Urgent Coincidence

Last week, on the eve of Western Union's joint naval exercises, 30
Russian trawlers in four groups appeared in the English Channel. Moving
slowly along Britain's southern coast, they anchored off Falmouth, 50
miles from Plymouth, where the naval maneuvers were to start. Local
fishermen did a rushing business ferrying out sightseers at eight
shillings a trip. The Russians refused all requests to board, some
shouting "Is forbidden" and others "We go fishing."

Customs officers were allowed on the mother ship, where the flotilla
master explained: "The Russian fishing industry urgently needs more
trawlers in the Black Sea." He was waiting for...